Translate it as "first timers" for brevity...

Ari...It could have been related but I had a history and contacts..they even told me exactly what was going on and why. I stated that obviously if they were uncomfortable with this device I would leave it behind, but the official at the point ( top rank) said she was determined to clear me and my property..

It might have helped that I've mastered 1000 words of Hebrew that I used liberally...

I try to do that with every place I go, with Iceland being the exception...absolutely brutal language....